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by austin-cheney 609 days ago
I cannot speak to agoraphobia or hyper anxiety. Otherwise alcohol is toxic. Recent medical studies have reached the consensus that no amount of medicinal benefit sufficiently makes up for the toxic damage inflicted by alcohol consumption. Thus the only remaining medicinally qualified use of alcohol remains that of a topical antiseptic. Thus from a purely medical perspective alcohol consumption is recreational drug use and in no way therapeutic.

As an unrelated curiosity there is tremendous research into hyper neuroticism because it is directly correlated to high anxiety and high anxiety is bad. However there appears to be next to no research into hypo neuroticism as though it is inherently an unlimited good. I can tell you from experience it isn’t.

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I think it's also used in cases of poisoning with methanol.